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Professor R.J. Tarrant points out to me how Ovid elaborates the novel item of comparison in a full distich with several picturesque details (_Punica_, _lento cortice_, _rubent_), then reviews familiar elements rather more quickly in 9-10, with geography the ordering principle.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Aurea cum primum gemmantets rpre per herbas Matutina rubent radiati lumina Solis,
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770
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lilia, ut autumno candida mala rubent. ima uidebatur talis inludere palla: 35
He dreams that Neaera is false to him Lygdamus 1912
biocon commented on the word rubent
Rubent signifies reddening or red (OED).
June 9, 2014